Launching in August 2018: A free science immersion program for Canadian girls

Girls on Ice Canada provides a tuition-free transformative leadership opportunity to a diverse team of teenage girls from underserved communities (urban, rural, First Nations) across Canada centred around a 12-day glacier mountaineering and science expedition deep in Glacier National Park, British Columbia.

How your donation helps

It costs $6000 for us to provide this experience to each girl tuition free. That includes the cost of hiring professional scientists, and ACMG certified guides, lodging costs during the program, travel support, and providing climbing, camping and science equipment. The program can only run with a full team, we need your donations to get there!

Through the Girls on Ice Society, a non-profit based in Revelstoke, BC, we are pursuing granting options which will cover a significant portion of our budget. Your donation will help us reach our ultimate goal of offering Canadian girls a transformative experience in August of 2018!

Our expedition has the following goals:

1. Increase young women’s self-efficacy and interest in pursuing science as a career;

2. Create lifelong advocates for the scientific process and its role in public policy;

3. Teach critical thinking skills, which will be important for participant’s future pursuits;

4. Expose and develop outdoor field skills in a remote and inspiring environment; and,

5. Enhance leadership self-confidence for participating young women so that they have a higher likelihood of becoming community leaders in the future.

Thank you all for your generous donations! Through your support and the support of our partners we have nearly reached our goal. We are starting a new one month campaign to raise the remaining $5000 needed to run this summer's expedition. Please share or donate to this new campaign which will run until July 1:

Thanks to your help, we are on our way to meeting our goal! Your generosity is inspiring us, just as we hope to inspire young Canadian women. Please continue to help us spread the word about our fundraiser so we can make that a reality!